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First Posted: 3/29/2013 9:57:40 AM <hardreturn>HEIDELBERG TWP. &#8211; A Dallas Township woman was one of five people killed in a two-vehicle crash in Lehigh County on Thursday afternoon. <hardreturn>State police at Bethlehem identified the woman as 22-year-old Cecilia R. Besecker. She was a passenger in a 1997 Subaru sedan driven by Nicholas A. Gustafson, 22, of Orefield, state police said. <hardreturn>Besecker was a 2008 graduate of Dallas High School and attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She worked at the Applebee&#8217;s restaurant in Wilkes-Barre Township. <hardreturn>State police said Gustafson was traveling north on Bake Oven Road when he failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with a 1997 Chevrolet tow truck driven by Charles P. Oswald, 58, of Schnecksville, at about 2:36 p.m. <hardreturn>Oswald&#8217;s truck was towing a box truck and was traveling west on Mountain Road when he struck the Subaru, state police said. <hardreturn>The vehicles traveled off the roadway and came to rest. <hardreturn>Oswald and the four people in the Subaru were pronounced dead at the scene by the Lehigh County Coroner&#8217;s office. <hardreturn>Gustafson&#8217;s other passengers were Michael A. Bruno, 23, of Catawissa, and Zach Alai, 17, of South River, N.J. <hardreturn>A passenger in Oswald&#8217;s truck, Walter D. Fries II, 50, of Northampton, was transported to Lehigh Valley Cedar Crest Hospital. <hardreturn>State police said it is unknown whether anyone involved in the crash was wearing a seatbelt. <hardreturn>The investigation is continuing and the National Transportation Safety Board has been notified due to the number of people killed, state police said.

Dallas Twp. woman killed in 2-car crash